Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-12
MEN ON THE BALL FIELD.

Detroit Pretty sure of the Pennant-
 Seven Games With the St. Louis
 Browns for the Championship of the
 World.
 The twentieth week of the National league championship race closed Saturday. The one significant feature of all these weeks of play is the winning lead secured early in the struggle and still held by the Detroit club. Only series of unlooked-for misfortunes can prevent the Detroits from capturing the pennant. The Detroit club has made re- markable record this season, and certainly deserves all the praise and encouragement now being bestowed on it. If no misfortune overtakes the team it will, as the pennant winner, meet the St. Louis Browns and in that way be repaid for it's seasons work by a division of the gate receipts from the exhibi- tion games to be played by the two teams. The two defeats of the Chicago team at De- troit on Wednesday last gave the Detroit club better hold on first place. The De- trolts have fifteen regular schedule and two postponed games yet to play at home, besides three at Pittsburg and three at Indian apolis, where they close the championship season. They can afford to lose ten of the twenty-three and still come in first The Chicagos, their nearest opponents, have twenty four games to play, of which they will have to win twenty-three games to tie Detroit, should the latter win thirteen of it's twenty three games. The chances of New York winning first place are not so bright Philadelphias displaced the New Works for third place. It is the height of Harry Wright's ambition to beat the New Yorks, and he will be likely to do it if the New Works do not brace up and the Phillies con- tinue playing the way they are now.
 President Won der Ahe was recently inter- viewed in St. Louis and asked about the games which the St. Louis Browns will play with the League club that shall win the pen- nant. He said he would rather play the De. troits for the worlds championship this fall than the Chicagos, because he thinks they are an easier team to beat. The Browns have the association pennant within tnelr grasp and the Detroits, barring accIdent' will win the League emblem. AS would nat urally follow, after last years series with the Chicaeos, the Browns are looking for De- troit's scalp, and in all probability will be af- forded an opportunity to exhibit their hair raising abilities. The base ball lovers of the Mound City are enthusiastic over the pro- posed series, and are already laughing at the tricks ''der boss team" will show the slug gers from Michigan's empire city. The games will be conducted in sn entirely diff ferent manner from the St. Louis Chicago se- ries of last fall. One game only will be played in either St. Louis or Detroit. except in the event of tie, when the deciding game will be played at St. Louis. The games will begin in the East, New York being the scene of the first, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis following in the order named. The St. Louis manage ment is of the opinion that more money will fall into the clubs coffers by playing the majority of games in the principal cities of the country than would be the case if the contest was confined to St. Louis and De- troit, and the ball public at large will un- doubtedly heartily concur in this opinion and turn out, especially in the eastern citias, in such numbers as to severely tax the ca pacity of the several grounds on which the games will be played. The financial part ol the arrangement has not been definitely set tied as yet, but the sixty and forty per cent. system to winner and loser will probably be adopted. In addition a silver cup donated by Miss Helen Dauvray will be presented to the win- ming club as an emblem of the worlds cham
 pionship. The lady is an ardent admirer oi the national game and her gift will no doubt prove as much of an incentive to both mines as will the money consideration and the honor of the worlds championship. Every member of the Browns is strongly impressed with the opinion that Detroit will be "pie' for the St. Louis nine and is correspondingly elated at the prospect of the clubs crossing bats with the boys from the City of Straits